Famous Quotes & Sayings

Cecil Beaton

On close inspection, this device turned out to be a funereal juke box - the result of mixing Lloyd's of London with the principle of the chewing gum dispenser.

Bertrand Russell

The fundamental principle in the analysis of propositions containing descriptions is this: Every proposition which we can understand must be composed wholly of constituents with which we are acquainted.

Robert Full

It doesn't look like any real animal, but all of the principles are there.

Charles Darwin

I must begin with a good body of facts and not from a principle (in which I always suspect some fallacy) and then as much deduction as you please.

Blaise Pascal

Custom is our nature. What are our natural principles but principles of custom?

Ayn Rand

There can be no compromise on moral principles.

Benjamin Disraeli

Protection is not a principle but an expedient

Alan Lightman

The history of science can be viewed as the recasting of phenomena that were once thought to be accidents as phenomena that can be understood in terms of fundamental causes and principles.

Ed Parker

Principles of motion take precedence over sequence of motion.

Abraham Lincoln

I say now, however, as I have all the while said, that on the territorial question - that is, the question of extending slavery under the national auspices, - I am inflexible. I am for no compromise which assists or permits the extension of the institution on soil owned by the nation.

Abraham Lincoln

An inspection of the Constitution will show that the right of property in a slave in not "distinctly and expressly affirmed" in it.

Abraham Lincoln

You know I dislike slavery; and you fully admit the abstract wrong of it.

Abraham Lincoln

We want, and must have, a national policy, as to slavery, which deals with it as being wrong.

Antoinette Brown Blackwell

Slavery is malignantly aristocratic.

Elbert Hubbard

To subjugate another is to subjugate yourself.

Aristotle

The worst thing about slavery is that the slaves eventually get to like it.

Algernon Blackwood

Not easily may an individual escape the deep slavery of the herd.

Alfred Marshall

Slavery was regarded by Aristotle as an ordinance of nature, and so probably was it by the slaves themselves in olden time.

Bob Stein

Our politics may be Republican, ... but that's just a temporary condition.

Moira Kelly

I think to be in politics you have to have the taste for blood on that.

Michael Bennett

I think one of the things that we are facing right now is that we've stopped listening to each other in our politics.

Robin Wright

I don't know enough about politics. I am out of the loop.

Lena Headey

If I was into politics, I would be rich.

Elliott Abrams

Four years is a long time in politics.

Rob Lowe

I - you know, I loved politics more as a younger man.

Richard J. Roberts

There is need for more science in politics and less politics in science.

Al Gore

That we can be e pluribus Unum - out of one, many